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Message: <blockquote data-quote="The Frasers" data-source="post: 2528" data-attributes="member: 170">Grant: Coming up in a spare moment.As early-days hobby keepers we have far more questions than answers but the Forum is the go-to for that. Just a couple of queries though; it's been a mild Summer/Early Autumn in the Hutt Valley and scattered pollen is still coming in. Pale yellow and a bit of dark orange coloured stuff. There must still be nectar out there because they are still slowly filling frames but with Belmont Regional Park on one side and housing on the other what they are visiting is conjecture. There is always a chance of Tute on the edges of Korokoro Stream in the Reserve about 3km away but DOC do prowl about down there if that helps. The bees may well not bother looking for it but a test would clear that.The uncapped honey doesn't want to drip readily when frames are held flat. There is honey in the brood boxes as well and that would need supplementing for Winter. We were intending to leave them one super and harvest the other. In all though, we have roughly 8 frames of potential harvest that is partly or fully uncapped.Two alternatives present themselves. Leave the hive with the whole 2 boxes as stores, or exclude the top super with a mat so that they focus on filling and capping the one and see what happens. Or, spin out a box-worth of mostly capped to have some for us and make mead or stabilize it with (eg) Sodium Metabisulphite that stops wild yeasts growing and then use it in cooking or, well, mead!</blockquote>

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